Elastic Search

Gain Insight Into Your Enterprise

About us

University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

University IT Services

• Chris Spadanuda – Associate Director Enterprise Services

• Ben Seefeldt – Lead Administrator IT Architecture and Infrastructure

• John Goodman – Manager, Identity and Access Management

About UWM Enterprise Services

• Identity and Access Management

• Systems Support

• Business Applications

UW Digital ID

UWM ePantherID

Enterprise Services - Goals

• Manage demand (MFA, Unified Communications, Storage, etc.)

• Modernize IAM infrastructure

• Update and refresh Data Center infrastructure

• Transition to cloud services – AWS, Azure

• Continue to increase compliance and security

More data = More insight = More action• Early efforts

– Syslog Server, Splunk, AD Audit

• Information we wanted and problems to solve– Patch levels– Phishing mitigation– Identity login locations– Service performance– What applications and users are using our services– Service dependencies– Service utilization– Audit response and security (long term and short term)

The Elastic Stack

Logstash

• Inputs

• Filters

• Outputs

Elasticsearch

• Indices

• Index templates

Ingestion

• Pipelines

• Data enrichment

Kibana

• Fields

• Index Patterns

Architecture

Architecture

Fields

• Timestamp

• Agent

• Client IP

• Geolocation

• Server IP

• Http_status

• Request uri

Data Types

• String

• Numeric

• Date

• Boolean

• Binary

• Array

• Objects

Aggregations

• Building blocks towards more complex data summaries

• Buckets: Match relevant data based on defined criteria

• Metric: Track and compute information from a set of documents

Visualizations

• Based upon queries

• Dashboards

• Bar graphs

• Pie charts

• Tables

• Coordinate maps

Identifying Data Sources

• Authentication attempts (Success / Failure)

• Load balancer performance

• Webpage load times

• Error status

• Sourcing service usage

• Identify client software connections (OS / Browser type)

Putting Data Into Action

• Office 365 authentication attempts

• Geolocation of authentication attempts

• Correlating similar authentication attempts

• Identifying user impact

Compromised Accounts

Compromised Accounts

Compromised Accounts

Compromised Accounts

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